This is the add in Norwegian. Ideally, the applicants would be based in Oslo and speak Norwegian, of course.

Informasjonsleder søkes

Atelier Nord søker informasjonsleder til prosjektet Urban Interface Oslo. Dette prosjektet består av en utstilling og et symposium og arrangeres i Oslo fra midten av september 2007.

Informasjonslederens oppgave er å utvikle informasjonsstrategi og informasjonsmateriell for Urban Interface Oslo – herunder pressemeldinger og verk- og prosjektomtaler, samt dokumentasjon av prosjektet. Informasjonslederen er primærkontakt til pressen og vil også være involvert i arbeid overfor sponsorer og partnere.

Vi ser etter en person etter følgende kriterier:

• Relevant erfaring
• God oversikt over pressefloraen
• Evne til å skape resultater overfor pressen
• Evne til å formidle kunst
• Evne til å kommunisere og skape engasjement for prosjektet
• God norsk og engelsk skriftlig og muntlig framstillingsevne
• Erfaring fra sponsorarbeid og næringlivssamarbeid er en fordel

Betingelser Informasjonslederen må være tilgjengelig for deltidsarbeid fra mai 2007 til og med oktober 2007. Fleksibel arbeidstid. Lønn etter avtale.

Søknad Kvinner og personer med minioritetsbakgrunn oppfordres til å søke.

Skriv søknad med CV på engelsk og send den til office@anart.no innen 17. april. Materiale som levers på annen måte enn e-post vil ikke bli vurdert og ikke returnert.

For spørsmål om engasjementet kontakt Atle Barcley på telefon 23060880 eller e-post atle.barcley@anart.no

The meeting with two advisers of the Utsmykkingsfondet (The National Foundation for Art in Public Buildings) yesterday was very positive. It is likely that the organisation will support urban interface oslo. Mette Christine Kvandal and Borghild Volckmar explained that their organisation is very interested in the subject of urban interface. Interestingly, the Utsmykkingsfondet can only support uio financially, if urban interface oslo cooperates with the Oslo community.

The Utsmykkingsfondet is located at Kristian Augusts gate 23, 7th floor, PO Box 6994, St. Olavs Plass, N-0130 Oslo Phone +47 23 31 68 20

The planning of urban interface olso is slowly taking shape. Out of the 32 proposals three works have been selected for the Oslo version of the urban interface project. The names of the artists will be published soon. Currently, we are trying to secure the financial basis on which Atelier Nord will produce the show and conference in September. As soon as the overall budget is clear, the artists and their projects will be announced. Today we also defined the area in which uio (urban interface oslo) will take place: It will be the south part of Grünerlokka, Toyen and Gronland. These are three neighbouring districts in the city center which offer spatial, architectural and cultural diversity to the artists. Also Atelier Nord and the UKS gallery are located in this area where the uio headquaters might be installed.

The closing date of the urban interface oslo call was February 16, 2006. We recieved a wide range of proposals from mainly Norwegian artists. These are evaluated currently with regard to their relation to the urban interface theme, feasability and costs. The final selection will be made next week.

urban interface is a series of exhibitions and a research project dealing with the changing notion of private and public space which occurs due to the everyday use of communication technologies.

urban interface is initiated and curated by Susanne Jaschko. urban interface | oslo will be produced by Atelier Nord and take place during three weeks in September 2007.

For the exhibition in Oslo we are seeking art projects which have the potential to become focal points of the shifting conceptions of those private and public spaces. We are interested in works convey the idea of public space as an accessible and contributive sphere and call attention to a more sensitive engagement with the private, physical and digital spheres. For urban interface oslo we prefer proposals by Norwegian artists and by artists working out of Norway and being familiar with Oslo.

The artworks should be located in public or semi-public spaces and easily accessible to visitors. Artworks should either be site-specific or site oriented, time or process based, employing new technologies and thus responding to the complexity and dynamics of urban space. urban interface is based on the idea that artworks are presented in public in connection with a “host”, which can be a private person, an enterprise or an official body.

Please include in your submission:

- a two page maximum summary of the concept including title and contributors. If the project has been shown before please include documentation and year of production

- a short CV

- a budget for the project

The deadline of submission is February 5th, 2007. Applications on email only. Use urban-interface@anart.no.

urban interface | oslo is the second realisation of the urban interface project. The first event, urban interface | berlin, will take place in Berlin, Germany, from April 15 – May 6, 2007.

For more information about urban interface and this call, please visit also Atelier Nord

We are very happy that Atelier Nord has confirmed a minimal version of urban interface oslo which is independend from our application to the Norwegian Arts Council. We will publish a call for artworks by Norwegian artists this month on this website and on major mailing lists.

On Friday 1st December we completed the application to the Norwegian Art Council for urban interface oslo. The producer of the Norwegian version will be Atelier Nord, in case the application is successful. Our idea for urban interface oslo is to have a focus on Norwegian artworks but to repeat two to four of the projects from Berlin – those which are not particularly site-specific. The new artworks/projects by Norwegian artists will be selected from proposals which will be requested through an open call in January 07. urban interface oslo is scheduled for September 07.